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Children and adults minimise activated muscle volume by selecting gait parameters that balance gross mechanical power and work demands
Tatjana Y. Hubel, James R. Usherwood
Journal of Experimental Biology 2015 218: 2830-2839; doi: 10.1242/jeb.122135
Tatjana Y. Hubel
Structure and Motion Laboratory, The Royal Veterinary College, Hatfield, Hertfordshire AL9 7TA, UK
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vol. 218 no. 18, 2830-2839

DOI 
https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.122135
PubMed 
26400978

Published By 
The Company of Biologists Ltd
Print ISSN 
0022-0949
Online ISSN 
1477-9145
History 
  • Received March 11, 2015
  • Accepted July 5, 2015
  • Published online September 23, 2015.
Copyright & Usage 
© 2015. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided that the original work is properly attributed.


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  1. Tatjana Y. Hubel and
  2. James R. Usherwood*
  1. Structure and Motion Laboratory, The Royal Veterinary College, Hatfield, Hertfordshire AL9 7TA, UK
  1. ↵*Author for correspondence (jusherwood{at}rvc.ac.uk)

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Children and adults minimise activated muscle volume by selecting gait parameters that balance gross mechanical power and work demands
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